[PATCH] powerpc: Initialize local variable fdt to NULL in elf64_load()

Lakshmi Ramasubramanian nramas at linux.microsoft.com
Fri Apr 16 05:18:39 AEST 2021


On 4/15/21 12:14 PM, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:

Sorry - missed copying device-tree and powerpc mailing lists.

> There are a few "goto out;" statements before the local variable "fdt"
> is initialized through the call to of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt() in
> elf64_load(). This will result in an uninitialized "fdt" being passed
> to kvfree() in this function if there is an error before the call to
> of_kexec_alloc_and_setup_fdt().
> 
> Initialize the local variable "fdt" to NULL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas at linux.microsoft.com>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> index 5a569bb51349..0051440c1f77 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/elf_64.c
> @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ static void *elf64_load(struct kimage *image, char *kernel_buf,
>   	int ret;
>   	unsigned long kernel_load_addr;
>   	unsigned long initrd_load_addr = 0, fdt_load_addr;
> -	void *fdt;
> +	void *fdt = NULL;
>   	const void *slave_code;
>   	struct elfhdr ehdr;
>   	char *modified_cmdline = NULL;
> 

thanks,
  -lakshmi


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